F-Secure Virus Descriptions : Totilix
Totilix is a dangerous Internet virus-worm that spreads itself
with e-mail messages and overwrites all EXE files (except
EMM386.EXE, SETVER.EXE and files that are currently run and are
locked) in the Windows directory with its copy.
The worm then registers its file to be run upon each Windows
startup (this is all for nothing, because the system will not be
functional anyway after all EXE files are overwritten). While
registering, the worm creates a new auto-run key in the system
registry:
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
RunAVUpdate = "worm filename"
where "worm filename" is the actual file name the worm has run
from. The worm also creates an "identification" registry key:
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\AVUpdte\Install
that reports the system is already infected and there is no need
to overwrite EXE files in Windows and to send infected messages.
The worm does not obtain a victim's e-mail address from the MS
Outlook address book or from other files like other e-mail worms
do, but it forces a user to select a victim's address himself.
When starting, the worm displays a fake message:
AV Intelligent Updater
Please select email address to send at your friend
Select email address with 'a' only not with 'A'
Then the worm activates an e-mail client by using MAPI functions
(i.e., not depending on the e-mail client brand and version),
activates the Address Book menu and waits for the user to select
address(es) there. After that the worm sends an infected message
with its file attached to a selected address(es). The message
that a recepient gets looks like that:
Hi Friend,
This mail contains a new AV intelligent updater for all antivirus.
To install it, execute the attachment file
if you have any problem, send mail at antivirus@hotmail.com
The attached worm's file name is the same of the file the worm
has been activated from. Initially, the worm was received under
the AVUPDATE.EXE name. The second common name is TOTILIX.EXE.
In case any error occurs while selecting an address or sending,
the worm erases all files in the Windows directory, and displays
one of the following "error" messages:
The recipient requested has not been or could not be resolved to a unique address list entry
The recipient could not be resolved to any address.The recipient might not exist or might be unknown
One or more unspecified errors occured
The name was not resolved
There was insufficient memory to proceed
The operation was not supported by the messaging system
The user was cancelled one or more dialog box
In case the worm successfully sends an infected e-mail, it
disguises its action with the following message:
AV Intelligent Updater
Internal error occured when you have launch this program
Contact antivirus@hotmail.com or others AV
Depending on system date and time, the worm erases files in the
Windows directory and displays the following messages:
On 13th of any month, if seconds = 30
Virus Win32.AVUpdate
Attention, votre PC est en danger!!!!!
Car ceci est ma veritable identite
Veuillez contacter votre centre AV le plus proche
On 2nd of February:
Win32.Eva by Benny, (c) 1999
Hello stupid user, i'm so sorry but i have to interrupt your work,
Cause i hate this shitty program. Click OK to continue
Greets to:
Super/29A
Darkman/29A
Jack Qwerty/29A
Billy Belcebu/DDT
And many other 29 Aers...
On 9th of May:
Win32.3x3eyes coded by: Bumblee[UC]
This is my last contribution to Ultimate Chaos team Greetings UC brothers
On 5th of April:
Virus Report rev 2.1
SPIT.Win32 is a Bumblee Win32 Virus
Feel the power of spain and die by the SpiT!
On 24th of September:
TOTILIX Presents...
This >TOTILIX< Virus was assembled at the city of Oporto Portugal!
Gas_par@hotmail.com
(c) 1999 G@SP@R aka Sexus
Totilix.b or Britney is a modification of the original Totilix
virus-worm. On startup the worm loads KERNEL32.DLL and MAPI32.DLL
libraries, gets the address of RegisterServiceProcess function,
creates its startup key 'ILoveBritney' in Windows Registry:
Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunServices
or in case of Windows NT:
Software\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\RunServices
This will allow the worm to be run during all Windows sessions.
Then the worm changes Internet Explorer startup page to
'www.britney-spears.to/site.html' and checks its 'installation
check key':
Software\Britney\Install
If this key is not found, the worm renames SSTART.SRC to
BRITNEY.SCR and starts to look for EXE files. When an EXE file is
found the worm overwrites this file with its copy (except for
EMM386.EXE and SETVER.EXE files). Then the worm creates the above
shown key and gets addresses of MAPI-related functions. If an
error occurs during this process, the worm shows a messagebox
with the following error message (the caption of all worm's
messageboxes is 'ILoveBritney Freeware'):
MAPI function can't found
Please refer to help to install it
Then it deletes all files in C:\ folder and exits. Otherwise the
worm displays the following message:
Please select email address to send at your friend
This program open automaticaly your address book
When a user selects addresses from the opened Address Book to
send a message, a worm tries to send a message with its copy
attached to selected addresses. The infected message looks like
that:
New Britney Screen Saver
Hi
I Send you this mail to give you a new screen saver about Britney Spears.
I hope your enjoy to have it.
See you soon...
If an error occurs during this process, the worm shows a
messagebox with one if its error messages, for example:
A error occured when i try to send email
Please refer to your windows help for more informations
Then it tries to delete all found files and exits.
In case of a successful sending attempt, the worm displays the
following message:
Thanks to have take this freeware!!!!
Which include new screen saver about britney
Now, send this software to your friend who like me
If you want to email me, send at britney@peeps.com
Then the worm installs itself to memory and checks current date.
If the date is 12th of February, the worm starts to continuously
show messageboxes with the following text:
Win32.ILoveBritney
It's Britney Birthday!!!!!
You musn',27h,'t work today...
After that the worm deletes AUTOEXEC.BAT, CONFIG.SYS, IO.SYS and
MSDOS.SYS files from root C:\ folder and shuts down Windows.
If the date does not match, the worm checks current time and if
it is between 8:00 and 18:00, sets captions of all windows to
'Win32.ILoveBritney par ZeMacroKiller98' and starts to output the
following messages in different colors on the screen:
Britney Spears is very beautiful girl!!!
If you don',27h,'t think that, you think it now, Ha Ha Ha Ha
Because of a bug in worm's code the first message is not seen -
it is replaced with the second message because the worm's author
screwed up message output coordinates.
If the time is between 18:00 and 8:00, the worm displays the
following message and shuts down Windows.
You can't use your PC, now!!!
It's time to stop your computer...
The Totilix.b virus-worm can cause a heavy damage to a system
that it infected by replacing EXE files with its copy or by
deleting all found files. In many cases a system will become
unbootable.
[Analysis: Eugene Kaspersky, KL; Alexey Podrezov, F-Secure; February 2001]
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